Epigraph
Part One
Light and the Sadness of Dreams
Where They Found Him
Timing and Order in the Universe
Grace and Morning Mass
The First Signs of a Storm
Lost Files
Grace
Night
Some Day We’ll All Be Happy
Why He Hated Them
What’s a Boy? What’s a Son?
The World Comes to an End (in One Apocalyptic Moment)
The World Is Born (in One Apocalyptic Moment)
The Order of Things in the Universe
Andrés Segovia. What a Beautiful Name
Irony and Touch
How Everything Comes Back
Studying the Light
Good Things, Bad Things, Good Things
The Angel of God
What’s a Mother?
Dead, You Say?
Grace at Work
Andrés Was Crying
Dave? Grace?
The Light
The Dark
Part Two
Normalcy and Apocalypse
Do You Love Me, Mister?
What About the Sky?
Order and Timing in the Universe
There Might Have Been Thunder
Grace at Morning Mass
Shirts and Things That Matter
Still Life of Beauty
Conversations (Because We Live in Our Heads)
Still Life of Freedom
Maybe Everything Would Be All Right
Not This Case, Judge
Grace in the Afternoon
Andrés, You Are That Boy
Mother, Son, Mister, Grace
Until His Heart Bursts into Flames
The Things of This World
Everything but Sleep (in the Middle of the Night)
Part Three
The Silent Love of Countries
Blindness and Books
Learning to Run
The Quiet Before the Storm
Andrés Segovia. That’s a Beautiful Name
All the Hovering Angels
Becoming Light
No One Can Run from a Fire
Touch
Emancipation—There’s a Word
He Was Happy
Apocalypse: Everything Happens in an Instant (Timing and Order in the Universe)
Grace, Liz, Light, and the Sadness of Dreams
What Are We—Asleep?
No Morning Mass Today
Whatever Gets You Through the Day
Prayer
The Story of Dave
Who Was She Now?
Good Man, Take Me Home
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher